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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T21:45:20.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Film & TV",
    "\"Regarding the Pain of Others\"",
    "Amusing Ourselves to Death",
    "The Medium Is the Message: An Inventory of Effects",
    "Directing the Documentary",
    "The Wire: Truth Be Told",
    "Regarding the Pain of Others",
    "Ways of Seeing",
    "Landscapes: John Berger on Art",
    "Portraits: John Berger on Artists",
    "Film Art: An Introduction",
    "Film Form",
    "Film Studies: The Key Concepts",
    "Simulacra and Simulation",
    "Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism",
    "Say Hello to Metamodernism",
    "The Disaster Artist",
    "Sonny Boy",
    "Catching the Big Fish",
    "An Editor's Burial",
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  "textContent": "\n\nPart 1 of a tour of the film, media theory, and art criticism books that have informed my perspective over the years. Part 2 coming next month.\n\nRelated video: \"Regarding the Pain of Others\"\n\n**Books Mentioned in Part 1:**\n\n**_Amusing Ourselves to Death_** — Neil Postman (1985)\n\n**_The Medium Is the Message: An Inventory of Effects_** — Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore\n\n**_Directing the Documentary_** — Michael Rabiger\n\n**_The Wire: Truth Be Told_** – Rafael Alvarez\n\n**_Regarding the Pain of Others_** — Susan Sontag\n\n**_Ways of Seeing_** — John Berger\n\n**_Landscapes: John Berger on Art_** — John Berger\n\n**_Portraits: John Berger on Artists_** — John Berger\n\n**_Film Art: An Introduction_** — David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson\n\n**_Film Form_** — Sergei Eisenstein\n\n**_Film Studies: The Key Concepts_** — Susan Hayward\n\n**_Simulacra and Simulation_** — Jean Baudrillard\n\n**_Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism_** — ed. Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons & Timotheus Vermeulen\n\n**_Say Hello to Metamodernism_** — Greg Dember\n\n**_The Disaster Artist_** — Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell\n\n**_Sonny Boy_** — Al Pacino\n\n**_Catching the Big Fish_** — David Lynch\n\n**_An Editor's Burial_** — (New Yorker articles that inspired Wes Anderson's **The French Dispatch**)\n\n**_In the Blink of an Eye_** — Walter Murch",
  "title": "My Favorite Film and Media Books – Part I | Nebula Plus"
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